Document < … > lists on the regex page

[cfa]

It's not obvious that < … > is a LTM; the angle brackets may also be mistaken for rule delimiters.

say 'food' ~~ /< f fo foo food >/;      # OUTPUT: «｢food｣␤»
say 'food' ~~ / f | fo | foo | food /;  # OUTPUT: «｢food｣␤»

[zoffixznet]

I also would've thought || prefix applied to this construct as it does in /||@foo/ and even /||<{qw/foo food/}>/ to effect first-listed-match instead of LTM matching, but it doesn't look like it works.

I think that's a bug and filed it as rakudo/rakudo#1635 but I'm not 100% sure if it's intentional that it doesn't work.

[cfa]

@JJ: to clarify, the main issue was addressed in 124b498; @zoffixznet's || comment is outstanding.